GENEROUS bosses at Marwell Zoo have extended a cut-price entry offer to mark its 35th birthday following an overwhelming response.

And staff have urged as many people as possible wanting to visit the popular attraction to avoid tomorrow.

The promotion, run in the Daily Echo, will admit adults for just 40p and children for 25p - the prices when the park opened in 1972.

So many people have applied for the tickets, originally only valid for tomorrow, that the tickets will now be valid until December 31, 2007.

Marwell is appealing to visitors not to turn up tomorrow if they can make it another day, as it is anticipating huge queues to get into the Colden Common attraction.

Staff have urged visitors to use their tickets on a later date - including the main summer school holidays.

They also ask if visitors insist on coming tomorrow to consider using public tranpsort as they anticipate traffic queues and huge demand for parking.

To qualify for the extension, please send in your vouchers to the Southern Daily Echo Offer, Marwell Zoo, Colden Common, Winchester, Hampshire, SO21 1JH.

If you have already sent in your vouchers to the Daily Echo then your tickets will arrive in the post, though Marwell says that it cannot guarantee that all vouchers received will be returned in time for tomorrow.

To claim your Anniversary Ticket you must send your vouchers from the Daily Echo now to: Southern Daily Echo Offer, Marwell Zoo, Colden Common, Winchester, SO21 1JH.

For further information, contact Rob Lee on 01962 777982 or Amanda Morrissey on 01962 777927.